General Lord Robert Bertie (14 November 1721 – 10 March 1782) was a senior British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1751 to 1782.
[1] Bertie joined the Coldstream Guards as an ensign in 1737, and was promoted to lieutenant in 1741 and captain in 1744.
He was granted brevet rank as colonel in 1752, major-general in 1758, lieutenant-general in 1760 and general in 1777.
Bertie also commanded a regiment of fusiliers which filled billets to Admiral John Byng's fleet in 1756, then short of men.
[1] Bertie was a Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales, later King George III, from 1751 until his death.